Wine attracts more folklore than almost any other drink — and much of it is nonsense. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20268 min readFew […]
The Evolution of Wine in America - Through The 1960s Until Now While we know wine is essentially a drink as old as time, the United States wasn't always the biggest fan of vino. […]
The History of New World Wine Before the Age of Exploration, the indigenous peoples of the Americas had a long tradition of distilling alcohol into alcoholic beverages. It is widely established that indigenous distilled alcohol […]
Women’s Role in The American Wine Industry In 1974, Dr. Anne Noble joined the faculty of Enology and Viticulture at the University of California, Davis. She was the first woman hired as a faculty […]
November 1345: Pinot Noir was first mentioned in written records. It was recorded as being grown in Burgundy. In 1470, monks from France introduced the grape to the Rheingau area in Germany, where it […]
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